Body of Sin by Eve Silver

Author:Eve Silver
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-09-05T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

This great god cometh to this gateway, and entereth in through it, and the gods who are therein acclaim him.

—The Egyptian Book of Gates

The Underworld

LOKAN GRABBED THE FRONT OF Bryn’s shirt and hauled her up against him as he leaped back to avoid the oozing darkness lapping at his toes. He spun, set her on her feet, pausing only long enough to make certain she had her balance and snarled, “Run.”

He was done with pretending to let her lead. He’d lost everything. Even his life. He wasn’t about to lose her, too.

He clamped his fingers around her wrist and dragged her along, feet pounding gray stone that evaporated behind them, leaving nothing but endless void in their wake.

The path forked dead ahead.

“Which way?” He was already veering to the left.

“Right,” Bryn ordered.

He couldn’t afford to hesitate or question.

She was the guide Boone had sent him.

So he’d fucking well let her guide. But not lead.

He changed direction and they ran on. Was the stone beneath his feet more solid? He concentrated on each heel strike and decided that, yeah, it was. And the roaring behind them had dropped a decibel or two. He shot a look over his shoulder. The void had slowed, no longer eating the ground at their heels.

A moment later, when he checked again, it had slowed even more.

They rounded a corner, and the terrain changed. It seemed vaguely familiar—a corridor formed by massive stone blocks.

“Stop.” Bryn tugged her arm, and when he didn’t immediately free her, tugged harder, her breath coming in harsh rasps, her skin sheened with sweat. She dropped forward at the waist, resting her palms on her thighs as she hung her head and tried to catch her breath.

“We need to keep moving, Bryn.”

She shook her head. “It’s okay.” She took another gasping breath. “It won’t follow.”

A look over his shoulder confirmed her assertion. The tunnel disappeared around the bend, and there was no sign of the void that had eaten everything behind them.

“Guess you were right about not going left,” he said.

She turned her head and looked at him through the long, dark strands of her hair. A sharp image of his daughter superimposed itself in his thoughts. Dana loved to toss her hair forward and look at him through the golden strands. Peekaboo. Little girl laughter. The sudden wave of longing to see her caught him unawares. It stole his breath and twisted him up inside with true, physical pain.

“Here, in this place, I’ll always be right,” Bryn said, drawing him back to the moment. “This is the one thing I never make a mistake at.”

There was something in her tone that made him edgy. Bitterness? Maybe. But something else.

“Yeah, about that…care to define ‘one thing’? You want to tell me what the hell is going on? I’ve known you for nearly seven years, and the whole time it never dawned on you to mention that you aren’t human?”

There it was, lying naked and ugly right in front of him. He had to wonder what the hell else she’d been lying to him about.

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